“No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.”

“I’ve won his heart, but it’s like owning a house in which most of the doors are permanently locked. He wants to shield me from all unpleasantness. And it’s not really marriage—not like the marriage you have with Cam—until he’s willing to share the worst of himself as well as the best of himself.”

“The London season is like one of those Drury Lane melodramas in which marriage is always the ending. And no one ever seems to give any thought as to what happens after. But marriage isn’t the end of the story it’s the beginning. And it demands the efforts of both partners to make a success of it.”

“I'm not the marrying kind -"St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.”

“Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret.”

“Somehow the promise we had made on that piece of paper gave me more freedom than I’d ever known before. It allowed both of us to argue, to laugh, to risk, to trust—without fear. It was a confirmation of a connection that already existed. And it was a bond that extended far beyond the borders of a shared living space. We would have stayed together even without a marriage certificate . . . but I believed in the permanence it represented.It was a piece of paper you could build a life on.”

“... I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage - just choose someone you can't live without.”